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Date:      Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:39:00 +0100
From:      Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?B?SvxyZ2Vu?= Dankoweit <Juergen.Dankoweit@T-Online.de>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Urgent: Can't type in gdm after system upgrade
Message-ID:  <20060110103900.54a31aaa.jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060110065232.34086e1e.Juergen.Dankoweit@T-Online.de>
References:  <20060110041115.85284.qmail@web53415.mail.yahoo.com> <20060110065232.34086e1e.Juergen.Dankoweit@T-Online.de>

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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:52:32 +0100
J=FCrgen Dankoweit <Juergen.Dankoweit@T-Online.de> wrote:

> Good morning,
>=20
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 20:11:15 -0800 (PST)
> "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> wrote:
>=20
> >=20
> > And im happy that i can use my computer again! But i am still worried
> > about the solution. Whats wrong that caused this in the first place?
>=20
> Let me speculate - I must speculate because I didn't have the time to
> look deeper in the system: the ttys aren't completely initialized but
> but it is "told" to every other startup script which waits on ttys that
> it everything is initialized.
>=20
> > Is
> > this a kluge that will get messed up hte next time i change anything?
> > The instructions say to use gdm_enable to start gdm and i dont want
> > to be doing anything wrong.
>=20
> No there is no wrong thing. Let me say: under UNIX we have the great
> chance to find for one problem many solutions which all work.=20
> I hope the new and the old rc-system will coexist a long time.
>=20
> I my eyes the new rc-system has a great disadvantage: If you want to
> test a new daemon-process you either have to restart the operating
> system or you have to set all variables on the command line and then you
> can test the daemon.=20

Or you can prefix arguments with "force":

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/foo.sh forcestart
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/foo.sh forcestop
...

--=20
Jean-Yves Lefort

jylefort@FreeBSD.org
http://lefort.be.eu.org/

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